Fenton township, Whiteside County, Illinois (IL) detailed profile
Number of foreign born residents: 1 (100% naturalized citizens)
| Fenton township: | 1.1% |
| Whole state: | 12.3% |
83% of Fenton township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago.
Out of people who lived in different houses, 56% lived in this county.
Out of people who lived in different counties, 28% lived in Illinois.
Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:
- This state: 374
- Northeast: 6
- Midwest: 142
- South: 9
- West: 36
Percentage of households with unmarried partners: 4.5%
Likely homosexual households (counted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner households)
- Lesbian couples: 0.5% of all households
- Gay men: 0.5% of all households
Housing units in structures:
- One, detached: 189
- Mobile homes: 25
Median worth of mobile homes: $37,100
Housing units in Fenton township with a mortgage: 70 (7 second mortgage, 2 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
Houses without a mortgage: 52
- Construction (17%)
- Machinery (9%)
- Chemicals (8%)
- Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (8%)
- Professional, scientific, and technical services (8%)
- Food and beverage stores (5%)
- Utilities (5%)
- Health care (17%)
- Educational services (17%)
- Public administration (10%)
- Machinery (7%)
- Social assistance (6%)
- Accommodation and food services (6%)
- Paper (6%)
- Other production occupations including supervisors (11%)
- Carpenters (11%)
- Operations specialties managers except financial managers (9%)
- Metal workers and plastic workers (7%)
- Secondary school teachers (5%)
- Other health diagnosing and treating practitioners and technical occupations (5%)
- Law enforcement workers including supervisors (5%)
- Accountants and auditors (11%)
- Other healthcare support occupations (11%)
- Other financial specialists (8%)
- Business operations specialists (7%)
- Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (7%)
- Material recording, scheduling, dispatching, and distributing workers (7%)
- Computer specialists (6%)
Most common first ancestries reported in Fenton township:
- German (19.2%)
- United States or American (13.5%)
- Irish (13.3%)
- English (11.1%)
- Swedish (7.1%)
- Scotch-Irish (6.9%)
- Pennsylvania German (6.3%)
Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents:
- Other Western Europe (100%)
Means of transportation to work:
- Drove a car alone: 269 (91%)
- Carpooled: 23 (8%)
- Worked at home: 3 (1%)
Most commonly used house heating fuel:
- Bottled, tank, or LP gas (56%)
- Utility gas (27%)
- Electricity (11%)
- Wood (6%)
99.4% of residents of Fenton township speak English at home.
0.6% of residents speak Spanish at home (100% speak English well).
Household type by relationship:
Households: 573- In family households: 535 (151 male householders, 10 female householders)
160 spouses, 204 children (165 natural, 10 adopted, 29 stepchildren), 8 grandchildren, 0 brothers or sisters, 0 parents, 2 other relatives, 0 non-relatives
- In nonfamily households: 38 (13 male householders (12 living alone)), 20 female householders (16 living alone)), 5 nonrelatives
Size of family households: 45 2-persons, 45 3-persons, 41 4-persons, 22 5-persons, 5 6-persons, 3 7-or-more-persons,
Size of nonfamily households: 28 1-person, 5 2-persons,
95 married couples with children.
15 single-parent households (8 men, 7 women).
Private vs. public school enrollment:
Students in private schools in grades 1 to 8 (elementary and middle school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 13.4% |
Students in private schools in grades 9 to 12 (high school): 0
| Here: | 0.0% |
| Illinois: | 11.1% |
Students in private undergraduate colleges: 5
| Here: | 13.9% |
| Illinois: | 25.8% |